The electronic music introduction celebrates the energy that springs up from the earth, from coal used by a factory or foundry to hydroelectric generators. At the same time, chorus of solar music instruments, created by Joe Jones, Fluxus composer, to be ultra-sensitive to varying sunlight, thus being varied and vibrant at noon, but silent after dusk, produce the music.
The energy flowing towards the earth causes terror, because the phenomenon is mysterious.
These natural actions forewarn mechanisms of the large generators of the power station in which energy will be created in large quantities. The technicians struggle to make the generators work above and beyond the force of inertia, succeeding with difficulty, but only after bending and forcing the thrusts of nature.
Human voices, singing and reciting the text, add to the ambient sound and electronic-funky music.
At the final moment a struggle erupts between the created energy and the technicians who try to control it. This struggle is expressed in a crescendo ending in a black-out.
Apprehension, the uneasiness caused by the mystery of a great energy that will not be tamed, one that constantly rebels against the commands of the technicians, a rebellion that is revealed as the last guarantor of the salutary mechanical/electronic functioning of the universe.
The energy flowing towards the earth causes terror, because the phenomenon is mysterious.
These natural actions forewarn mechanisms of the large generators of the power station in which energy will be created in large quantities. The technicians struggle to make the generators work above and beyond the force of inertia, succeeding with difficulty, but only after bending and forcing the thrusts of nature.
Human voices, singing and reciting the text, add to the ambient sound and electronic-funky music.
At the final moment a struggle erupts between the created energy and the technicians who try to control it. This struggle is expressed in a crescendo ending in a black-out.
Apprehension, the uneasiness caused by the mystery of a great energy that will not be tamed, one that constantly rebels against the commands of the technicians, a rebellion that is revealed as the last guarantor of the salutary mechanical/electronic functioning of the universe.
ENERGY Reports 2020
"Energy" directed by Antonio Lai da Teulada, with a video by Clare Ann Matz in 2020. The electronic music celebrates the energy that springs up, a chorus of solar music instruments, created by Joe Jones a well known Fluxus composer, to be ultra-sensitive to varying sunlight, thus being varied and vibrant at noon, but silent after dusk, produce the music. Human voices Catherine and Clare Ann Matz, singing and reciting the text by Charles Matz, add to the ambient sound and electronic-funky music by La Maison.
ENERGY remix 2008
Fluxus project by Antonio Lai da Teulada; lyrics by Charles A. Matz; music by Joe Jones; soprano Pamela Hebert; reciting voices Charles Matz and Clare Matz; video installation scenery by Clare Ann Matz.
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